Seems Quotes - Page 13
Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive.
1848 Letter to the British Ambassador to Paris, 5 Mar.
Hannah More (1803). “The Works of Hannah More, in Four Volumes: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published”, p.279
Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”
"The Genteel Tradition at Bay" (1931)
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.
George Eliot (1890). “Adam Bede: Scenes of Clerical Life”
Song: Ignant Shit, Album: So Far Gone, 2009
Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.
DONALD HALL (1973). “WRITING WELL”
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.329, Transaction Publishers
There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.
C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.10, Cambridge University Press
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
But as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem
Song: Grey, Album: Revelling / Reckoning, 2001
An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.
Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster
William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.573, Delphi Classics
Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.20, Modern Library